Genoa - It was one of the few gripping moments in a trial that had promised to be electrifying, but in the end has proven to be simply what it was supposed to be: an exhausting series of accounting data, diagrams cross referenced with corporate real estate deals to make one’s head spin

Rome - They, like so many others - and they are many - feel cut out of the game, far from the government’s palaces, in a state of malaise which for Italian sailors means feeling abandoned by the traditional unions and shipowners